I agree in both a similar way and a very different way, too, because you can't be just 'it's DC's Guardians of the Galaxy because James Gunn did such a great job on that, but you got to look at it like... I don't want to get into it, either.
I think you look at everything - this is when I do comics, too - you look at everything that worked and didn't work, on anything. Like revamping a character, reintroducing a character, I’ve done it a lot. The creative kind of viewpoint and way into the character and rebooting and changing it and reintroducing it, is informed by everything. It’s informed by comics and both what works and what doesn’t work. I don’t wanna spoil any of the story there, but if people liked my run on Green Lantern, then hopefully they’ll like what I’m doing.
I'm taking everything into account. That's what you do. You are not starting from ground zero and going 'I'm going to tell a story about this.' It's connected to everything, animation and comics and zeitgeist and other movies. There is a lot to take in and then redirect, and I am trying to do what I did on the comics in a way, do a rebirth.
What do you do to try and reintroduce a concept and a group of characters and make it - this applies to everything I work on - but as a writer, and that's what I really wanted to get back to, is being the writer, when I do my comics I feel I have more control over the minutiae, because the minutiae it does matter. All those little choices add up to something good or something that doesn't work. Part of the reason I want to get back into the writing of it all is because I want to form that minutia myself.